If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.